Posted on 03/23/2018 12:08:29 AM PDT by blueplum
Steve Bannon tried to distance himself from the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Thursday, claiming: “I didn’t even know anything about the Facebook mining.”
Bannon is a former vice-president and board member of the political consultancy, which he agreed he “put together.”
He claimed to a conference in New York that neither he nor Cambridge Analytica had anything to do with “dirty tricks” in the use of information harvested from Facebook to make computer models to sway elections.
Besides, he said, “Facebook data is for sale all over the world”. {snip} He blamed any “dirty tricks” on Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL, which he described as “the British guys, old Etonians and guys from Oxford and Cambridge”.
{snip} When Barber asked Bannon about dirty tricks by Cambridge Analytica, Bannon said: “That’s SCL [the parent company]. Not a penny of Robert Mercer’s money went into SCL, that’s all staffed by British guys from Oxford and Cambridge. CA is the data scientists – the Guardian and the Observer tell you that in about the 10th paragraph.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
He is probably correct in that Facebook data is for sale all over the globe. As much as Zuckerberg thinks he has contained in some ‘lightning-in-a-bottle’ situation...the minute he started collecting data, it attracted potential buyers.
And the media make a big deal out of this, while not acknowledging their own bias towards progressive candidates. Which is more dangerous, reaching out to people through opinions you discover they hold, or lecturing people non-stop about what opinions they should hold?
A few days ago when this story popped here, the Obama connection was front and center. A few hours later Fox Radio News only reported it as a Trump connection. Do they realize what Clymers they look like?
and now the road leads back to England - again. CA, Steele, I wonder what other smokescreens will pop up?
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So,Weiner and Zuckerberg caused Hillary to lose. HUMA,where’s my bottle?
“””Steve Bannon tried to distance himself from the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Thursday, claiming: “I didn’t even know anything about the Facebook mining.” “””””””””””””
Obama does it...cutting edge, genius
Trump does it....scandal, heads must roll
You’re leaving out all those white women....
Leftists are criminalizing normal conservative politics.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Or our data from OPM and any other hacked server.
Zuck is a multibillionaire and he charges nothing to join and post on facebook. How does somebody become a billionaire if they are not charging admission?
Bannon is right on this.
Stealing your data and selling it to the highest bidder is the BUSINESS MODEL for Facebook.
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